I am very sorry about the ongoing trouble you are having with your local channels on your Tivo receiver. We intend to work with you to resolve your issue at hand, so I just wanted to let you know that we received your email and I have forwarded it for special handling. A specialist will respond as soon as an agent is available (likely within 24 hours). For immediate assistance, please call us at 1-800-531-5000.

We appreciate your time.

Sincerely,

Ronna S. - 100131199
DIRECTV Customer Service

tick tock tick tock.....It's evident that this is high on Direct TV's priority list. Day 5 without local channels...pathetic customer service.

I too am in Chicago with no 2,5,7 and now I think fox 32 is gone...11 also. 9 is there. WTF. I am on 6.2 only for MRV and moving to 6.4 is not really a good option here as we use MRV daily amongst my 3 receivers. Why did DirecTV mess with this? I love my Tivo, already tried DirecTV's brand and the interface is horrible..right with Comcast. I could go with DirecTV tivo - but no MRV...I could go with Tivo direct to get all I need - but no DirecTV (only comcast).

I may have to switch to comcast to get my Tivo - very frustrating. I saw the new DTV multiroom unit - which I may try in hopes they made the interface look better...but not sure what the price is as it is too new.

In FL I switched from DTV (after 10 years plus) to FIOS and in the "end" DTV offered a full year of service for free.

I told them "no" and haven't looked back.

Here in the midwest only offerings are DTV and Comcast. I am still waiting for FIOS and Uverse to come around such that Comcast has a bit of competition.

I wonder what it'll take to get them installed; as there was talk last year about it and nothing this year. Our subdivision in the MW is 100 homes. In FL it is only 50 homes and we have the choice there of Comcast, FIOS or Uverse.

I am pretty much kind of "done" today with DTV, Customer service et al.

Now past my s list going to the "dark side" of looking forward to how many customers that DTV is going to lose for said debacle.

Its all well deserved DTV; you created your own s and I hope you like the smell of it as you wallow in it.

I wish we could get FIOS here - I would be all over that. U-verse is here, but I will never move to ATT. The worst support ever experienced from a company from DSL, Wireless, phone service & u-verse as I deal with them with clients all the time.

I am having comcast price it out as it appears I can buy Tivo Premiere and pay them $15.00/m for service, on top of the DVR (if I don't pay $500.00 for lifetime) - then pay comcast for the programming. I have always liked DTV for quality - far surpassed comcast cable - but this may push me away from DTV...this little stunt they are pulling.

Sad to see DTV ruin their own HD Tivo by not releasing it as a new Tivo model. Tivo models already have more than what DTV has in their Tivo...not sure why they did that. Kinda like how Motorola/Sprint puts out the i1 Nextel with Droid 1.5 - when it was years old already. Now, it is dead anyhow.

I'ts not my intention to turn this into a hacking how-to thread...but I can't seem to find the answer to a few questions. I've got a 6.4a instantcake and ptvnet cd order on its way and plan on trying to remedy my no locals problem this weekend. I think I have pretty good understanding on how to do this myself...but what I what I need to know is:

1: First of all, will I able to re-hack my DTivo using a 6.4a image? According to others, there will be no MRV and that isnt a deal breaker..I use other features..

1: Once I'm ready to FTP rbautch's enhancement script to my tivo...does it matter that directory I copy it to? what directory do I use?

2. Once I'm TELNET'ing and at the bash prompt...what exact command do I type to run it?

I'll try to keep the tech questions to a minimum..I think I should be able to do the rest with no problem..or feel free to point me in the right direction to where I can find these answers..

I wanted to remind those of you upgrading to 6.4a that MovieLoader becomes an option to acheive MRV. Its been awhile since I used MovieLoader (on the old HDTivo). Movieloader lets you xfer shows from one tivo to another. It will also serve up shows in *.tmf format from the server.

There does seem to be a conflict between the latest version of Tivo Desktop and Movieloader. Tivo Desktop seems to block the DTivo's ability to see Movieloader. If I prevent Tivo Desktop from running and launch Movieloader, the tivo sees it fine and I have transferred a couple shows just to make sure everything is working.

Refer to the MovieLoader thread in Underground for setup, configuration etc.

I tried one more thing before giving up on these. I went into the restart menu and selected to delete Programming and To Do List. I had rerun guided setup several times to no avail. When I deleted Programming and the To Do List, it ran for about 4 hours but low and behold, back came the local channels. I still have an issue with the screen format reverting to 4:3 for some reason but the locals are back. You have to upgrade to 6.4a for those who haven't. Just follow the thread on the first page of this forum to download the 6.4 slices. I bought "the slicer" to install and that worked fine but now I have the 4:3 problem.

My wife asked me not to delete Programming and To Do list; but maybe will do that anyways if it gets her stuff back.

I had the same issue after updating relating the the 4:3 screen size defaulting. I would set the 16:9 and change channels and it would revert back to the 4:3 video format.

I started to play with the video setting going back and forth between 4:3 and 16:9 saving each time. That said it's staying now at 16:9. I honestly don't know what I did though other than the saving piece to make it work again.

I tried one more thing before giving up on these. I went into the restart menu and selected to delete Programming and To Do List. I had rerun guided setup several times to no avail. When I deleted Programming and the To Do List, it ran for about 4 hours but low and behold, back came the local channels.

Thanks. I just tried the same thing on my HR10 (updated to 6.4a) and after 4+ hours, my channel 2, 5 and 7 locals are back now. Still no guide data, but it should fill in overnight then I can put all my Season Passes back in.

So, it seems like this solution definitely works. I'll try it on my other machine tonight.

Confirmed: a clear of the data and TO-DO list brings back Chicago 2 5 7 locals on a DSR704 slice updated to 6.4a.

Takes about 3 hours (not 1) for the clear to finish.

Make sure to update the channel list when the unit comes back. At least start with "Channels you receive", because "Favorites" gets cleared and if you have "favorites" for guide data, no channels will be available.

I don't know if clearing the data and TO-DO would help on 6.2a, but suspect if it did, the "fix" would be short lived since the GUIDE INFO would quickly corrupt the 6.2 again.

1 - Telnetted to DTivo and checked current versions validating that I had 6.2 running
2 - per above post downloaded 6.4 sw
3 - purchased slicer for ~20.00 USD
4 - ran slicer and it installed sw 6.4
5 - it did remove most of my tweaks except for telnet
6 - reinstalled the tweaks and tivowebplus
7 - ran the clear data to do list - took about 4 hours to run
8 - Chicago channels 2, 5, 7 are now seen and OK.

My second machine just finished "Delete Programming and To Do List" and also got all the locals back, so we're finally back up and running here. I'll have to re-enter all the Season Passes tomorrow, once the guide data is up to date.

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Originally Posted by zorro255

I tried "Delete Programming and To Do list" with my R10 6.1 no joy. Purchased a 6.4a cake got 2,5,7,11,32 back.
Still don’t want to update the rest of the DTivos unless I absolutely must.

I don't think anyone using a version other than 6.4a has gotten their channels back.

Are 6.4a slices not available for my Philips DSR7000/17? I upgraded my RCA DVR80 using the wget -O /var/packages/getslice command specifying getslice-6.4a-01-2-301[/url] command and have also used 101 and 3010 for my service ID's and I'm either getting nothing or an HTTP 500 server error. Is there no 6.4a slice available for this box or am I not using the right service ID? Thanks.

If anyone is still having problems getting their locals back in Chicago, I found out yesterday that when you restart and delete your program information and To Do List, you'll get your channels back. It worked on my RCA back but I can't get the slices for my Phillips DSR7000. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Correction on my last post. For my RCA DVR80, I used service ID 321 and that worked fine. Service ID 301/101/3010 all do not work when I try to do a getslice to dvrupgrade.com which makes me wonder if 6.4a upgrades for this box are not available anywhere.

Are 6.4a slices not available for my Philips DSR7000/17? I upgraded my RCA DVR80 using the wget -O /var/packages/getslice command specifying getslice-6.4a-01-2-301[/url] command and have also used 101 and 3010 for my service ID's and I'm either getting nothing or an HTTP 500 server error. Is there no 6.4a slice available for this box or am I not using the right service ID?

I had a problem like that, which I think had to do with not having internet access on that machine (it only had LAN access). I didn't fix it, but I think you can look into adding entries to resolv.conf like this:

Well, my DVR80 froze and I had to pull the plug to restart earlier today after running the Delete then downloading guide data overnight. My HR10 spontaneously restarted itself tonight about 10 minutes into recording two OTA HD shows.

I hope these aren't signs that 6.4a is less stable than the older 6.3e I was running. After all this, I still may need to look into new boxes if 6.4a means frequent lockups and reboots during recordings.

I'm an old school hacker that hacked my TiVos using a kernel that had killhdinitrd run on it thus I'm not familiar with some of the more modern hacking techniques. I downloaded this script referred to here and took a look at it but wasn't sure it's compatible with my hacking technique because it references the slicer and I never used the slicer.

Does the script assume a certain method of hacking?

Additionally using my TivoWeb I see this in MFS. I assume if I just wanted to eliminate my hacks I could run installSw.tcl and update to a non-hacked system. I'm not sure how unhacked software deals with unecrypted media files though. Anyone know.

Doesn't the table above show what things should like AFTER that script was run. Perhaps I don't need it at all and the only questions is whether slicer can update a TiVo that was previously hacked without slicer.

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Originally Posted by markis

I had a problem like that, which I think had to do with not having internet access on that machine (it only had LAN access). I didn't fix it, but I think you can look into adding entries to resolv.conf like this:

FYI - anyone trying to just remove the todo & guide on a 6.2a hoping 2,5,7, come back...it does not. I am guessing you will need 6.4 unless we hear from DTV that they will fix what they broke and allow us to keep 6.2 and locals.

I haven't used the slicer script, just the slices for a manual upgrade, so I'm not sure how it handles various different hacking methods. Someone else mentioned that they ran slicer and lost all their old hacks except the kernel and telnet access.

On my first manual upgrade, I made a mistake and was running an unhacked 6.4a for a short time. I was able to play my old recordings without a problem.

If your receiver ID matches the 101 prefix, it looks like you may have the 6.4a slice loaded already.

I haven't used the slicer script, just the slices for a manual upgrade, so I'm not sure how it handles various different hacking methods. Someone else mentioned that they ran slicer and lost all their old hacks except the kernel and telnet access.

On my first manual upgrade, I made a mistake and was running an unhacked 6.4a for a short time. I was able to play my old recordings without a problem.

If your receiver ID matches the 101 prefix, it looks like you may have the 6.4a slice loaded already.

It looks like I have 6.4a slices on all 4 TiVos. I guess slicer may be overkill since I'm familiar with all the manual ways of hacking.
Does this sound like a good plan.

Run a modified swInstall.itcl that doesn't reboot to install the new SW?

dd the older 6.2a kernel that had killhdinitrd run on it over to the soon to be active new boot partition?

Copy over my hacks and rc.d changes to the about to be new root partition

Run a modified swInstall.itcl that doesn't reboot to install the new SW?

dd the older 6.2a kernel that had killhdinitrd run on it over to the soon to be active new boot partition?

Copy over my hacks and rc.d changes to the about to be new root partition

reboot

That's the basic idea. You can see my old notes at this link and also search for and read the "6.3a upgrade via bash" thread on another site. You also have to search elsewhere for the 6.4a patch locations for tivoapp.

I'm also looking into Plan B options now, since 6.4a rebooted in the middle of recording tonight. This equipment is really outdated and it would be nice to get more HD stations. I may have to drop DirecTV though, since the last installer wouldn't put a new dish on the roof.